Lisbeg

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lisbeg, from 5,903 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres) to 1,007,925 m² (100.79 ha, 249.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Lisbeg in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Nov 2025N/a

  for renovation of of Lisbeg Gate Lodge, a protected structure under the Record of Protected Structures in the Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028 (RPS No. 3277), proposed demolition of existing (non-original) single storey extensions to the east of the existing dwelling, adjustments to opes and the proposed construction of a single storey extension to the east including all associated internal works, a domestic garage to the north, revised site boundaries and all external works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25301

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  for a Livestock Underpass, Soiled Water Holding Tank, Farm Roadway and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561050

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lisbeg.

Recorded monuments

• GA100-121 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Lisbeg House, farm house, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan two-storey house, built c.1895. Three-bay front elevation facing east and having paired windows to end bays, with three-bay single-storey block slightly recessed to east end, having recessed middle bay and slightly advanced gabled north end bay with double windows. Three-bay south elevation having canted middle bay, west elevation having five-bay first floor and six-bay ground floor and one slightly advanced gabled bay with paired windows. Inner side of 'U' of plan has flat-roof two-storey return. Hipped slate roofs to main block and canted bay, pitched slate roofs to other blocks and advanced bays, all with red brick chimneystacks and moulded red brick eaves courses, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course to outer elevations, circular openings to gables of advanced bays with red brick surrounds. Segmental-headed window openings, one blind to south end of east and west elevations, with chamfered red brick block-and-start surrounds and cut limestone sills, and having timber sliding sash windows having one-over-one pane to south elevation and two ground floor openings of east elevation, four-over-four pane elsewhere to two-storey part of east elevation, one-over-one pane to southmost bay of west elevation, and four-over-four pane elsewhere to west elevation. Square-headed window openings to rear elevations with mixed one-over-one, two-over-two, six-over-six and four-over-four pane windows. Square-headed window openings to single-storey block with six-over-six pane windows. Segmental-headed door openings to principal elevations, with chamfered red brick block-and-start surrounds and limestone steps, glazed timber panelled door to south elevation, double-leaf glazed timber panelled door to west, and timber panelled door to east, with overlights. Square-headed door openings with cut limestone steps and timber battened doors to inner elevations of rear returns. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to yard to rear of house, with pitched slate roofs, rendered walls with some exposed rubble limestone, and square-headed openings with replacement fittings. Segmental carriage arch to yard, having cut limestone voussoirs. Stable yard to rear with multiple-bay single-storey recent range of stables to east range having pitched slate roof with wide overhang to front, rendered walls, square-headed doorways, and square-headed window opening with red brick surround, cut limestone sill and timber louvres to south gable. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to north and west ranges with pitched slate roofs with rooflights, rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with fixed timber windows with pivoting toplights, and square-headed timber battened doors and half-doors. Two-bay single-storey kennels to east elevation of west range, having pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings, with metal railings to boundary.

• Lisbeg House, gate lodge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1860, extended by one bay to east end of south elevation, with more recent flat-roof addition to re-entrant corner of rear. Forward-facing gables to porch recessed to front re-entrant corner of front elevation, and to bays closest to gateway, that to south elevation being slightly lower than main roof. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, and decoratively carved timber bargeboards and finials. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with cut limestone quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone surrounds, sills and label-mouldings, with recent timber sliding sash windows, triple three-over-three pane to gables and south elevation addition, double three-over-three pane and two-over-two pane to middle bay of south elevation and later addition respectively, and single two-over-two pane to porch. Square-headed door opening with cut limestone surround and steps and replacement timber panelled door.

• Lisbeg House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Lisbeg House, erected c.1860, comprising vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances, having octagonal-plan cut limestone piers with moulded plinths, string courses and caps, decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates and similar pedestrian gates. Snecked dressed limestone quadrant walls with crenellations and terminating square-profile dressed limestone piers. Gate lodge stands inside gateway.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Lisbeg, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1443 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Lisbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Lisbeg · An Lios Beag

Area

1,231,424 m² (123.14 ha, 304.29 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Clonfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

454 people lived in 157 households in the Clonfert electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blacksticks, Cloonconra, Cloonshease (Daly), Cloonshease (Persse), Coolcarta East, Muing, Srahaun

Placenames

Lisbeg on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.